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Okay, you asked for it. Some suggestions:

1/72

A-7C of VA-86 Sidewinders aboard USS America in 1972

F/A-18 of VFA-86 Sidewinders - the 2006 CAG with orange diamond on the spine - tail parts maybe included twice and sized to both Academy and Hasegawa (very different tails)

EA-6B Prowler of VAQ-142 Gray Wolves at Bagram AB in non-standard camouflage with multiple grey splotches and VAQ-133 Wizards in sand/tan/brown scheme at Bagram AB

F-4E Phantom 68-0517 of 526th TFS, 86th TFW with black canopy sills and black anti-glare panel

F-4D 66-7650 of 89th TFS, 906th TFG in Euro 1 camo with thin red band around the radome, with GPU-5 pod

F/A-18C BuNo 164634 “Sting 306†of VA-113 Stingers during OIF (sole SLAM-ER shooter)

F/A-18D ATARS during OIF

B-57 Canberras in Vietnam, both in natural metal and SEA colours – Miss MiNuki, Hell’s Angel, Cong Buster, BA-906, VNAF, RAAF,….

EA-18G Growler – VAQ-138 Yellowjackets CAG

EA-18G Growler – VAQ-132 Scorpions with camouflaged tails and markings during Odyssey Dawn with mission markings

And I’d really like to see a lot of your 1/72 fighter-sized stuff scaled down to 1/144.

There are numerous really nice kits in 1/144 that could use decent decals. Sized to Revell, unless noted:

A-10 – scale-downs of your 1/72 stuff, plus the JAWS scheme and the “peanut†scheme with hog face

F-15E – Revell’s kit only includes one Tigermeet scheme.

F/A-18 Hornets

A-6 Intruders (sized to Dragon)

F-4E Phantoms (sized to ???)

AV-8B+

A-4E/F (sized to Platz)

AH-64D

HH-53

F-104G

Agree on pretty much all of this.

-Dave

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Got my decals in the mail yesterday. They look sweet!!

I have to say, that I had never heard about the C-130 from the MN ANG until I was leafing through the instruction sheet last night. Truly an amazing story, I had to reread it to my wife, and she was amazed by it too.

-Dave

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Gents:

Here is an excerpt for the instruction sheet about the C-130 Dave has mentioned:

Our alternate subject is part of the 133rd Airlift Wing (AW) and is shown as it appeared on 11 September 2001. On the morning of that fateful day our subject was leaving Washington, D.C. using the call sigh GOPHER 06. On 9/11 the crew had taken off from Andrews AFB, Md. near Washington D.C. after completing a normal mission to the Caribbean. The flight was going smoothly as the plane flew over the Mall, passing famous sites like the White House and Arlington Cemetery, and crossing the Potomac River. Suddenly, an aircraft controller contacted the crew and asked if they could see an airplane at their 10 o'clock position. This request got the attention of Lt. Col. Steve O'Brien’s (Aircraft Commander of GOPHER 06), because normally they rely on the controllers to let them know where other aircraft are located, and in this situation their roles were reversed. Aboard the C-130, LtCol. Joe Divito, a navigator and chief of safety for the squadron, described the aircraft as a 757, "just screaming, going left to right." Aircraft control explained they did not have control of that aircraft and the pilot was not communicating with them. To O'Brien's surprise, the controller then asked the crew to climb up to the same altitude and follow the commercial aircraft. "In over 20 years of flying, I've never had a civilian air traffic controller ask us to follow another airplane," O'Brien said. "So that was really a shock to have them make that request." As the crew matched the aircraft's path, they saw the pilot direct the plane on a sharp turn to the right and then crash directly into the Pentagon. Initially, the crew did not think the crash was an act of terrorism. "We thought there was a problem with the airplane, because the plane was going much faster than it should have been," said Divito. Through the haze the shape of the Pentagon emerged where the explosion had occurred. The crew alerted the controllers and tuned in a newscast using navigation radios. "The first thing we heard on there was 'We're now hearing about a second airplane hitting the World Trade Center.' That was not what we were expecting to hear. We were expecting to hear about an airplane impacting the Pentagon, and they haven't even mentioned that yet," said O'Brien. "They're just talking about a second airplane hitting the World Trade Center, and the light goes on, and it's like, 'Oh my God, the nation's under attack!'" Unfortunately their role in that horrific day was not over. In disbelief, the crew quietly listened to the news broadcast on the radio and continued on their path to Minneapolis and somewhere near the Cleveland control center the crew was asked if they saw a plane at 12 o'clock. Hoping this didn't mean what they thought it did, the crew reported that they did not see the aircraft. Then, from the back of the plane, Divito said he heard Senior Airman Robben Todd, seated near one of the rear windows yell, "Oh my God, I just saw another crash. There's another big cloud of smoke out here." The crew continued their communication with the controller and confirmed that the crash they were reporting was in the same area where the controller had lost contact with United Flight 93. Although baffled and shocked, the crew did not know what else to do and again continued towards home. "Everything was just really quiet," Divito said. "The controllers weren't handling the volume of flights they normally do and we were just dealing with them individually as we went from sector to sector." Finally, one of the controllers started talking to the crew. "He wasn't sure if he should be telling us anything, but he explained that he knew we were a military aircraft and one of the only planes in the air at that time," said Divito. "He said all other aircraft had been ordered to the ground." The controller then asked the crew where they were headed and they responded they were on their way home to Minneapolis. Realizing they should not complete their trip home, the crew contacted the nearest air station and landed at Youngstown Air Reserve Base in Vienna, Ohio. After they were on the ground and had finished debriefing intelligence specialists and Federal Bureau of Investigation agents about what they had seen, the crew sat down to watch television in their rooms and try to find out what had exactly happened that day.

Regards,

Mark

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